Mexico's 10% tax on sugary drinks is projected to prevent 18,900 premature deaths and save more than $983 million over 10 years.

A street merchant arranges soft drinks in Mexico City on Dec. 20, 2006. The American Beverage Association has poured $7.7 million into the campaign to defeat the soda tax on San Francisco’s ...

During the first year of Mexico’s soda tax, purchases of sugar-sweetened beverages “ went down on average about six percent, relative to what we think it would have been otherwise,” Ng says.

Mexican leaders link rampant soda consumption to COVID-19 deaths, blaming sugar for causing comorbidities such as obesity and diabetes.

Mexico’s new tax on soda and other high calorie foods kicked in Wednesday, starting the clock on a big policy experiment that could reignite calls for similar actions in the U.S. Researchers ...

MEXICO CITY — Father Raúl Martínez considers soda such a problem in his Catholic parish that he stops drinking it during the Lenten period and asks his parishioners to do the same.

Adding a cent to a soda reduces sales, but does it really reduce calorie intake, let alone obesity?

Over 60 years and three generations, their Gugar soda company has offered them hard-won prosperity in one of the poorest states in Mexico. It’s allowed the youngest to study at the University of ...

Mexico has become the most obese country in the world. In a purported effort to combat the problem, the country implemented a one-peso-per-liter excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in January ...

Mexico’s politicians are working to create new obstacles for Coca-Cola’s sales growth, but the omnipresent soda brand’s has not seen much of a decline in popularity.

For fans of taxing soda, Mexico is the object lesson. Last year, the country imposed a stiff new tax on sugary drinks. And according to the early data, it’s working.